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This weekend tour was
coordinated by the Foothill Region and featured a tour of Tom Meleo's
car collection. Tom's car collection contains many Chevrolet's
that he, and his father, have collected over many years. The
Meleo's have orange groves in the San Jauquin Valley near Lindsey, Ca.
A recently constructed facility at one of their orange groves houses
many of their cars. This facility is very climate and dust
controlled since this location does experience many types of weather
changes.
The Chevy collection at the
new facility contains restored and original cars with newest about 1950.
Other locations at the Meleo's have additional Chevy's and other brands.
Tom also has a restoration facility at this location.
Tom Meleo, one of the original founding
members of our VCCA has been collecting (along with his father,
Vic) automobiles for many-many years.
Vic began operating a service station (now known as a gas
station, filling station, convenience store, etc.) in about 1937
in Los Angeles. He
continued with this operation till about 1941 and then opened a
repair facility in another individuals building.
Recently, within Tom & Vic’s collection, they had
acquired enough service station memorabilia that they decided to
recreate Vic’s old station and also restore his original ’37
pickup-Tow truck. Tom
also placed a new building on his property which houses his
early-Chev collection.
The newest car in the collection is a 1954 Chev hardtop.
This new building is very climate and filtered air
controlled.
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Snapshot
of the original truck with Tom's dad and his brother.
